Elon banned me from Twitter for doing journalism. Good riddance. https://micahflee.com/2023/05/elon-banned-me-from-twitter-for-doing-journalism-good-riddance/
Elon banned me from Twitter for doing journalism. Good riddance.

@micahflee Mark of pride. It's how you know you're doing real journalism that challenges those in power.
@micahflee @jrconlin It was a good day when I deactivated my Twitter account.
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You are not the first, and you won't be the last, but congratulations anyway!
@silverhorseman @micahflee Yes, I was the first! Nobody can disprove this

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I fail to see why anyone of integrity remains on Twitter.

@micahflee Off-topic: What are you using to run your blog? It kinda looks like WordPress, but not entirely.

@micahflee Carry it as a personal badge of honour.

On a second consideration, the way the big baby handles himself, it's more of a mass-produced badge.

@micahflee Interestingly enough I don't have a problem with him doing that. It's his Plattform, he can do it. For me it means nobody should be there anymore if there is such a moderator. And we should finally start regulating social media platforms like they were journalistic products.
@micahflee I don’t know what he want to do with twitter. It’s a mistake that he own the Twitter platform. Btw, my account got suspended,too.
@micahflee Can't you write a little more in your post? That's just a link. Don't like that you're trying to lead traffic to your website that way.

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Most instances only allow 500 characters per toot.

The article he linked to was much easier to read and bookmarkable.

I'm glad he chose to link to it. Nothing on this platform says you can't link to outside sources of information. πŸ™‚

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Something you should wear as a badge of honor and pride. I keep blocking him and he keeps unblocking me.
@micahflee was there a specific piece that lead to your ban, or just good journalism in general?

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Nope, Elon kicked you off His social platform because he doesn't like the message you were telling his crowd. And I support his right to do that 100%. I also quit Twitter in October 2022.

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And still everyone thinks Musk is a stable genius and the brains behind spacex and Tesla's success, when in reality he's just a useful idiot for money (that's exactly what Tesla's founders thought of him when they went to him for capital). The truth is people at both companies manage his ego and get him to agree with them. Bad enough they had to override his stupid decision to go vision only.